. Cyclopedia of American government . the Advancement of Sci., Pro-ceedings, 1877; F. E. Leupp, The Indian andHis Problem (1910) ; W. H. Hailmann, Educa-tion of the Indian (1904) ; E. S. Curtis, (1907) ; E. S. Ellis, The United States(1892) ; G. W. Maypenny, Our Indian Wards(1880) ; Handbook of Am. Indians in Bureauof Am. Ethmology, Bulletin No. 30 (1910),II; G. W. James, What the White Race MayLearn from the Indian (1908). Francis E. Leupp. INDIAN RESERVATIONS Purpose.—Indian reservations are areas setapart by the Government for the sole occu-pancy of a tribe or tribes, or one or mo
. Cyclopedia of American government . the Advancement of Sci., Pro-ceedings, 1877; F. E. Leupp, The Indian andHis Problem (1910) ; W. H. Hailmann, Educa-tion of the Indian (1904) ; E. S. Curtis, (1907) ; E. S. Ellis, The United States(1892) ; G. W. Maypenny, Our Indian Wards(1880) ; Handbook of Am. Indians in Bureauof Am. Ethmology, Bulletin No. 30 (1910),II; G. W. James, What the White Race MayLearn from the Indian (1908). Francis E. Leupp. INDIAN RESERVATIONS Purpose.—Indian reservations are areas setapart by the Government for the sole occu-pancy of a tribe or tribes, or one or more frag-ments of tribes, the land on each reservationbeing, at the outset, held in common by theoccupants. Their establishment was original- ly an expedient for getting Indian disturbersout of the path of white progress and permit-ting the development of the western belief was general, also, in the earlier partof the last century, that the only hope forpeaceful relations between the white and red165 INDIAN RESERVATIONS. 166 INDIAN RESERVATIONS races lay in keeping them well separated, andthe reservation plan seemed the simplest meansto that end. At one time the hope was enter-tained that if all the Indians could be collectedin two or three large reservations, these mightin due course be erected into Indian states andadmitted to representation in Congress. Outof this theory grew the Indian Territory ex-periment (see Indian Policy). The plan to which the Government finallysettled down contemplated not only the sepa-ration of the Indians from the whites, but sucha separation of the reservations from eachother as to preclude any quick massing of In-dians with hostile designs; and this purposewas furthered by regulations forbidding theentry of any non-Indian into a reservation,or the departure of any Indian from one, ex-cept by permission of the officer in charge. Treaty and Executive-Order Reservations.—According to the manner of their creation,reservations have bee
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